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4,000 gallons of diesel spilled, contamination reached Little Walnut Creek • Iowa Capital Dispatch [1]
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Date: 2025-05
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a spill of diesel fuel that, while mostly contained in a nearby pond, reached Little Walnut Creek in Waukee.
The department was notified Saturday morning of a leak from an above-ground diesel tank at an agricultural site, and later in the day, Waukee residents reported smelling fuel odors near the creek.
Jeff Theobald, an environmental specialist with DNR, said staff from the City of Waukee and City of Urbandale placed absorbent booms in several areas along the creek, and the diesel in the creek has been “very very minimal.”
He said any fuel that did reach the creek has been contained by the booms in Waukee, and he didn’t observe any diesel in the Urbandale booms.
An unknown amount of the spill reached an inlet tile which outlets to Little Walnut Creek, where residents reported the smell of fuel.
Theobald said Monday he has observed occasional whiffs of the fuel smell, which he suspects, are coming from the pond near the fuel tank where the majority of the estimated 4,000 gallons spilled was contained.
He said the tile line was cleaned by Waukee officials and no dead fish have been observed in the creek.
The cause of the spill remains under investigation.
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